The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1934, Page 3

Millions Gouged Out | By AFL Heads in Big ‘Kick-Back’ on Piers Corrupt Officials Use Gangsters and City | Leaders | By A. 8. PASCUAL NEW YORK.—Ramifice-; tions of a $25,000,000 water-| front “kick-back” racket in- clude millionaire steamship ines, American Federation of Labor officials, their gangster aides, politicians, stevedore bosses and contractors, all of them uniting to gouge the longshoreman of part of his wages. This amazing, highly organized system of extortion and terror squat- ting on the piers of New York op- erates with the blessings of Joseph P. Ryan. president of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association. Gangsters cooperate with union dele- gates to collect as much as 53 per | cent of a longshoreman’s daily pay. Workers are black-jacked into sub- | mission or murdered to insure the carrying out of this lucrative racket. | And the corrupt officials work hand in hand with the government of the city. Last year the Joseph P. Ryan Association held their annual dinner-dance at the Hotel Commo- dore. Every department of the city government including the judiciary was represented, according to the N. Y. Times. “Among the guests were John F. Curry, Tammany leader; Samuel 8. Koenig, Republican County chairman; District Attorney T. CG. Crain; Marty Madden, brother of Owen -Madden; Police Commissioner James §. Bolan, Senator Robert F. Wagner, and Samuel Rosoff, con- tractor.” Shipping Board Graft ‘The “Times” reporter probably did sot know T. V. O’Connor, chairman of the U. 8. Shipping Board and so could not say whether he was present. O'Connor, former I.L.A. president, was to have his innings with the ress later on when the U. 8. mail subsidies investigation illuminated him as 2 go-between for the Morgan- Astor shipping interests, the govern- ment and the LL.A. officials, But Martin Madden was present. He is Ryan’s personal bodyguard and brother of Frankie and Owen Mad- jen, all of the otorious Brooklyn gangsters, ct Ryan and collect the money, With ent of the 50,000 iong- | Port of New York) unemployed the racket flourishes. On the Cunard Line in New York, the boss stevedore sells jobs for $56; Jamnson, the TL delegate, black- ists those who complain, In Brook- yn, Frank Napoli, No. 1 Gang Boss L jobs for $50; $26 in wages earned by fortunate workers goes toward the racket. Every single deep water pier ontrelicd by the T.L.A. has a “kick- back” ranging from 10¢ to as much as can be wrung from the terrorized workers, und the ILA, officials share in this. Then Ryan, posing as the “friend of organized labor” has the crust to distribute a lesflet on the piers in! which he says: “It has been brought | io my attention that someone out-| side the ILA. ts soliciting money from our members, promising them Jobs at certain piers in preference to others.” i Book Sold for $8 | The Daily Worker has in ite pos- Session an I.L.A. union book that was sold to Howard J. Farmer for 33 by E. Busso, secretary of Local 338. ‘The initation fee is $10. The racket is centralized inside the LL.A. by the offiicals. The leaflet continues urging the men to report any such racketeering practices to Joseph Ryan, Ryan has heen told of these conditions scores of times by indignant workers who refused to pay the racket. Ryan is even afraid to call local membership meetings of the long- shoremen in order not to have the workers voice their hatred of the souging they must submit to in order ‘9 work two or three days a month. There are locals in the city that have rot inet for 9 and 10 years, ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Saturday, Feb. 10th, 1934 CLARENCE HATHAWAY Editor Daily Worker, Main Speaker | Mowyiunaed Unit Starts to! Root ‘Daily’ Among the Workers and Farmers | BOSTON, Mass.—Entering actively into the Daily Worker circulation | drive, the members of the unit in) Maryland, Mass., have divided them- | selves into four competitive groups, | with the object of obtaining 30 new subs by March 1, One group will approach farmers, | ®& second C. W. A. and unemployed | workers, @ third will concentrate on | an American Woolen Mill plant, a fourth, the street group, will work in the immediate neighborhood of | the Each group challenges the other to The unit as a whole challenges the unit in Fitchburgh to a Socialist culation campaign. How about it, | Fitchburgh? Missouri Frees 7KnownLynchers Prosecutor Admits State Had Strong Case ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 6.—The acquittal by an all-white jury of Walter Garton, one of seven lynchers of Lloyd Warner, Negro youth, was followed up to day by dismissal by the State of the charges against the other six. In making the announcement, At- torney General Roy McKittrick ad- mitted that the State had a strong case against the seven lynchers, The case against Garton was the strong- est, he said. “I am informed that the jury was ® group of good representative citi- zens of Buchanan County, and in view of the verdict of not guilty it would be useless to spend more money in prosecuting the other cases Circuit Judge A. V. Gaddy readily announced he would grant the dis- missals. No action has been taken against by the grand jury for “failing to pro- tect the Negro.” Garton who was acquitted last week is still held on a charge of mali- cious destruction of property in con- nection with the attack on the jail from which Warner was taken to be lynched. (See Editorial on Page 6) Hotel Walkout (By a Food Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Fellow workers of | hotels and restaurants. Your strike jmay be settled back stage. You'll have the same suffering over again. Don't Jet anybedy sell you in a bag. | The strike can be won if the delivery will be stopped to the hotels. No official will bring that up to the tank and file to ask the butchers, the teamster union, the laundry | workers, the the bakers to come ovt in a sympathy strike. Let the rank | and file demand it. The trouble is there are too many *ederations. Unite together. Let other workers come out with you to paralyze the food industry. The constitution and the by-laws of the AF.W., the A. F. of L., and the International Geneva Guild all have the same by-laws. If for two months or three the duc= are not paid you cannot vote for any official. Unemployment is not recognized. There lies a big weakness in the unions. ‘The Food Workers Industrial Union made an open field for all the ranks to unite and overtake the industry. If you join them, even your voice will help the unemployed. RUSSIAN WORKERS CHORUS VARIED PROGRAM Presenting of Daily Worker Banner to Boston District Dudley St. Opera House ‘113 Dudley Street, Roxbury Admission 250 INTERNATION C0 AL CERT and DANCE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY llth, 1934 Peoples Auditorium—-2451 w. chicago Ave. PROGRAM STARTS 3:30 P.M.—Dance After Program A Grand Concert of the best Artists of more than a dozen language groups. Three prizes will be awarded to best numbers Admission 35¢ — With this Ad 25¢ Auspices:—COMMUNIST PARTY DISTRICT 6 a ree a secure the largest number of subs. | competition in the Daily Worker cir- | now pending,” he stated. | | | Sheriff Theisen, who was “censured” | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY T, 1934 Striking Hotel Workers Demonstrate Sth Ave 2 Bus Co. Call Two Hour Strike in Jewish Philanthropic Society Agencies Tdoay of Negro Youth | NEW YORK—More than 500 em- |Ployes of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies voted unani- mously at a meeting Monday night to call a two-hour stoppage of work | at the socicties’ institutions, after the refusal of the director, Joseph M. Proskauer, to meet their deman for restoration of pay cuts rec: since January, 1929. The stop a: will be held today from 3 to 5 Following the stoppage a mass meect- ing will be held at Manhattan In- dustrial Hitch School, Lexington Ave, and 22nd St. A mass meeting held last week had notified the directors of the societi: of the strike action to be taken wages were not restored to the 1929 level, Bishop Held for Father of 5-Month Old Baby NEW YORK. — Bishop Charles | Manue! Grace, white, of the “louse of | Prayer for All Peon’e was in court | Monday charged with raning 21-year old Minnie Lee Kambbell, a colored member of his flock, Miss Kambbe'l charged the bishop | with being the father of her 5-month jold girl baby. She testified that he |had taken her from her home in | Brooklyn to Washington, Baltimore, | U r ge § Delivery | Charlotte, N. C. and other cities. The |58-year o'd bishop wes arraigned on} | 4 leased | Workers to Back [on $1800 bond, and aurea ee ‘ederal Court in Brooklyn in @ luxu- rious limousine with a liverled chauf- feur. ‘The House of Prayer for All People is said to boast 18 edifices through- out the U. 8, and 200,000 communi- | cants, Every new subscriber gained for the “Daily” ctrengthens our revolu- tutionary movement. Ask your fel- low worker to subscribe. Striking New York hotel workers in front of City Hall while delegation presents their demands to Mayor La Guardia, eived | Rape of Negro {irl Again Refuses of Delegation; Protest Meeting Feb. 12 BULLETIN NEW YORK.—A Frederick Doug- las Day Mecting on Feb. 12, under the auspices of the of Struggle for Negro Rights, will not only commemorates the great Negro fighter for liberation, but will be 2 rallying point for the s‘ruggles against Jim-Crowism and job dis- crimination against Neeroes by the C. W. A. and public utilities in this | city, it was announced yesterday. ergs |, NEW YORK—"It has been the pol- |icy of the Fifth Ave. Coach Co., not to hire Negroes on our buses, and this policy will not be chanze4,” Frederick T. Wood, president of the public utility, declared on Monday at his offices, 605 W. 132nd St., to a delegation of Nezro and white work- ers, demanding that in hiring new | conductors and drivers, the company | give preference to Negroes. | The delegation was organized by the League of Strug7le for Negro | Rights. Herman McKawain, presi- dent of the Greater New York Coun- cil of that organization, denounced |the rank discrimination practiced | against Negroes by the company. | Wood implied that the com-any con- | Siders Negroes inferior and incapable | of working as conductors and drivers. | “We hire workers according to their Jobless Insurance| he orkers Force Council | To Hear Demands for | Relief and Jobs 1,50 Demonstrate | at Cleveland for | | | | therefore we have never hired Ne- sroes, and haye no intention of so doing.” Employes Support Demands Th? delevation had the support of |many of the comrany's employes, jand a number of orzantzetions, | |Chureh, the Trade | Special to the Daily Worker | Counci!, the Finnish Workers’ Club, | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 6. — Fif- | Jericho Bextist Church, Avostolic teen hundred jobless and C, W. A.|Church of Christ, the Transnori j Workers demonstrated at the City Hall| Workers’ Union, the International Tabor Defense, Esthenian Workers’ Club, the Unemployed Covnetls, and sienatures of over 2.000 individuals endorsinz the demands, When Wood was told that 3909 neorle wou'd un- doubterily stop n-tronizing the hvses when they heard the resv't of the interview. he teok a slan at the Me-~ fro neovle of Harlem, steting: “We shold not he sorry to lose the trate of the Harlem peonle. We trv to make the service attractive, but of cours they en ride where th-* like.” Demands Fired Workers Be Restated Among the first demands opre- comted to the comnanv was that the 2% men fired for their union activity be immediately reincteted. These men were fired d--‘te the supposed guorantee by the N. R. A. of the richt of workers to organize tnto wntons of their own choosin’. The |here Monday night, demanding that |the city administration endorse the] | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance | Bill, and petition the Roosevelt gov- |ernment for the continuance of the |C. W. A. program. | ‘The City Council Chambers were empty, but the police attempted to bar the workers from entering, givirg permission for only ten delegates to enter to present the workers demands, |The workers, surging forward, forced | the police to permit them to enter the | City Hall lobby, where a meeting was j held despite the police mobilization to | prevent I. O. Ford, Communist can- |didate for Mayor in the last election, | from speaking, Ford's exposure of the Roosevelt New Deal was greet2d enthusi | by the workers; and jthe Workers’ Unemployment In- |surance Bill and the workers’ de- mands for re'iof at doub'e the present | rates, more than 600 of the workers | surged past the police and forced | their way into the Council Chambers. Inside the Council Chambers, Co- wan, the workers’ spokesman, pre- sented the domands for the endorse ment of the Workers’ Unemployment |Insurance Bill, the continuation and tion of the company union. A committee of workers of the commanv, some now emriloyed snd some of the fired workers, called at the office of the .S.N.R. to exnress “heir wholehearted support of its de. mands, They w-~> ecsured the sup- -~t of the L.S.N.R. for their-strug- gles for better working conditions: Emil Nygard to Sneak Negroes Jobs | PresidentRejects Demand | | ebilitv and efficiency,” he said, "and | }amons them the Bethel A. M. E.| Union Unity | Anteration also demended the aboli- | | enlargement of the C. W. A. protram jto include all reg'stered ©. W. A. | workers, and immediate cash relief to | all jobless workers, | The demonstration ended with the | workers voting to follow up their reso- | lutions and derzands by mass pressure }on each Ward Councilman through demonstrations and actions mobilized ' by the Unemployed Ward Assemblies. United Mine Workers of Amer- ica local to which H. F, Robinson, Negro mine:, belonged, in New Ken- sington, Pennsylvania, him in 1922 for National Mine Work- ers Union activities. He hasn’t had @ steady job since then, but he said. “It doesn’t make much difference: | even if we Negroes are in the U. M. W, A. or the A. F. of L. steel and glass workers’ unions, the general run of us find mining and steel work practically closed to us.” Robinson is a delegate from the) New Kensington Unemployed Coun-) cil. He spoke at three Negro churches, and they endorsed him as a delegate by | t the National Convention Against | ‘lls to have get-together councils to| Unemployment. “T've attended lots of conventions. including U. M. W. A. conventions,” he said, “but I've learned more here in three days than I learned in them in three weeks because here the rank and filers does most of the talk- | H. F, ROBINSON Drawn by William Gropper. ing, and in the U. M. W. A. they Taps down anybody that even asks for the floor,” CUR Sa J. P. CAFFREY “WEE had lots of troubles, They called us Reds and all the rest of it,’ said J. P. Caffrey, delegate from the Unemployed Council of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and a member of Local 478 of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters (A. F. of L.) “but when we organized, we get what we're after, always!” active in the Unemployed Council, Local 112, Greater Greens- ie a is < os Moose, too. “When I go back, I’m going to get the surrounding Unemployed Coun- Convention Figures, blacklisted | { | { | Drawn by Willtam Gropper. | meet regulariy in outlying districts,” he said, “There are 18 of them and | We need closer organization. We | helped to clean out the whole County Relief offiicals—and there’s plenty | more to fight for,” . f ae ar EINO STEIN | FOUR AF ot Enea unons f quarrymen and paving cutters {with & membership of 600 sent Eino Stein, 24, to represent them at the | National Convention Against Unem-/| | ployment, | | “We received word of the A. F. of | L.’s talking about various unemploy- } Ment bills,” Stein explained, “so 1 started talking about the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. There was the usual red-baiting that goes along with that kind of thing, but we put it through our locals, and here I am.” Stein is a clean-cut blond youth. He does not belong to the Communist Perty and certainly doesn’t sound ready to join it, He said, however: “The biggest complaint the oppo- sition made to my coming to the con- vention was the threat that I would not get a chance to express our locals’ views. Well, I've had plenty of time to do it. Everything has been thoroughly democratic. I’m perfectly satisfied. “There are grumblings in my lo- cality against A. F. of L. bureau- cracy, and if the proposed N.R.A. code goes through, with big wage cuts for us, there's going to be trouble,” ee ENOCH HARDAWAY Froce HARDAWAY is _ six-feet-| four, a Texas oil driller who has had 120 days’ work on wells in the past three wanre in Cleveland on Wash. Unemployed Convention CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb, 6—Bmil Nygard, former Communist Mayor of Crosby, Minnesota, will renort ‘on the National Convention Against, .Unem- | ployment at a mass meeting to be held here Fritay, Feb. 9. at.8 p.m. | | Pees | | Farmer-Labor By WILLIAM SCHNEIDERMAN MINNEAPOLIS.— The action of Congressman Lundeen in introducing |the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill into Congress might give the impression to some workers that Congressman Lundeen and the rest of the Farmer-Labor leaders in Minnesota are really in favor of un- employment insurance at the expense of the government and the em- ployers. A glance at the reco: however, will show that not only i | Lundeen’s action a gesture made a: & result of growing mass pressure, but that the whole record of the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota shows that its leade-s have fought against and sabotaged every struggle of the workers for unemployment insurance, | When Floyd B. Olson w: Governor on the Farmer-Labor ticket four years ago, % huge State Hun- ger March of thousands of worker: placed the demand for unemploy- ment insurance and relief before the State Legislature and the Farmer-~ | Labor Governor in the winter of 1931, but outside of expressions of “sym- | pathy” and promises, the demands | Were completely ignored by the Farmer-Labor legislators, The fight for unemp? yment in- and the Unemployed Councils in the | following two years, however, had their effect on the masses of workers and penetrated to the rank and file of the Farmer-Labor Party. It was this sentiment that forced Gov. Olson to make a gesture at the next ses- sion of the Legislature in the winter of 1933, and he introduced his own “Unemployment Insurance” Bill. (At the same session a State Relief March of 400 delegates representing 20,600 workers and farmers, and | backed up by a demonstration of | 10,000 Twin Cities workers again de- |manded the enactment of the Work- | (ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, | until such time as Federal Unemploy- |ment Insurance was established.) It is worth-while to examine Olson's bill, in order to see the ex- tent of trickery to which the Farmer- Labor administration went to deceive the workers and to please the em- Ployers. (1) The bill if passed, would not go into effet until the middle of “34 or later. (2) It would exclude all those already unemployed (over | 200,000 at that time). (3) It would jexclude railroad workers, domestic workers, agricultural laborers, several other categories. (4) It would exclude all thoze who did not work @ minimum number of wecks during the year before being unemployed. (5) The worker who would have the rare luck to fulfill these re- quirements would then be eligible to @ ridiculously small sum for a few weeks in the year. (6) A tax on work- ers’ wages would be imposed, and an equal tax on employers’ payrolls, which means that both taxes would be borne by the worker. This is the farce that the Farmer-Labor Party |dared to insult the workers of Min- nesota, with, and called it “un ployment insurance.” The Communist Party and Unem- ployed Councils developed a mass campa‘gn exposing the fakery of and | Party Does Not | Fight for Workers Insurance Lundeen Introduced Bill in Congress Under the Mass Pressure of Minnesota Workers ' the }L. uni | locals. the Farm of Repr | Work The w message * d When a de! 1 Cor d, the Farne: anett oferes | Bi | re} | where it w: word from Benn: |mer-Labor leg’s! |ture adjourned 1 jword on the floo | cluding its so-called ‘ |nett, for the Workers Uner | Ins that Congr tion in Congr of the gr Worker: Bill. It is this th: deen to act now. F: of the Farmer-L2 | Lundeen is an o} Jone who p | that, it is clear did Olson and ure. He may r of it before Co: of r same crude line | Bennett in the Le: jeven speak in fa’ gress, conscious as he i: |pressure and growin; jamong the millions of sentiment unemployed | ployment insurance at the expense of {the government and the |make the fight for Unemp!oyment In- surance. We must not forget th the whole record of the Olsons, Lun jdeens, and s |word they everything in | and prevent an workers. It is 01 struggle on a still g r scale than in the past, and not by any faith or illusions in their radical phraseology, that it will be po: for the Ameri- can workers to force the bankers’ lackeys in Congress to enact the} | Workers Unemployment Insurance | Bill. - Bridgeport Refuses ‘Back Job Insurance | } at Carpentina Hall, 1303 W. 58th St./Olson'’s bill, in contrast with the| Railroads Bill to Limbo; As Seen By Marguerite “How come we get into this Unem- Ployed Council movement, you. say? Well, I been acquainted with the working-class movement for a long time. I went to Hamlin, Texas, west of Fort Worth, looking for work with the C. W. A. When I got there, I found the unemployed had ‘to travel 20 miles to register. “I seen the need, so I got every- body together one night, and we ap- pointed a committee te go Into the registration place and bring it back to Hamlin. We did this. Then I drifted into Fort Worth and came in contact with the Unemployed Council, and they elected me # dele- gate to the convention.” The C. W. A. workers now have their own organization—and white and Spanish are united both in this and in the Unemployed Council. It was in this territory that T. E. Bar- low, an organizer, was arrested for trying to unite the Spanish sand Drawn by William Gropper. white, and was killed on his first night in jail. The police said that it_was “a fight,” but Hardaway said, “They murdered him, that’s all.” “Do you think the convention will spur organization down there?” he was asked, He exclaimed, “Aw, yeah!” Sheet tite STANLEY POSTEK WEEK in a Roosevelt transient camp was too much for Stanley Postek. He went back to the New Orleans waterfront and finally got himself a C. W. A. job; and came to the National Convention Against Unemployment via the boxcar route. “We've had plenty of fights for relief down there on the waterfront,” he said. “We hadda sleep in box- bane baa know the Seamen’s Church Institute was bumming money to feed us and bause ue bet thew didn't do —— ~ Drawn by Willism Gropper. it. You had to pay for the flop just the same, and for the soup. “The federal government, then, into a transient shelter. The food was terrible and the bunks were cooty-ridden, They made us work four days a week and gave us 90 cents for it. I went back to the waterfront, because if you stayed in the ‘shelter’ you couldn’t even look for & job. “We were working at a military barracks, outside of New Orleans. They started making us pay for transportation out of the 90 cents. tective Union. We sent a delegation to the State Relief Administration and they supplied us with buses— open-air buses, but still transporta- tion.” Negroes on the job were getting to organize by themselves when Postek, who is just 21, ap- proached them. “They said they didn’t know us white fellas would want to take them in.” he said. “They were very glad —and, by the way, they are good fighters.” The day after the white workers started to agitate for unity with the Negroes, however, the latter were Jim-Crowed. “The C. W. A. workers In Algiers, across the river from New Orleans,, struck and won,” sald Postek. “The Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union led a strike on the S. S. Mun- dixie, of the Munson Line, for back wages. The engineers and mates struck together early one mornins, and by 4 p.m, everybody was paid off in full. The mass meeting that sent me here had 600 attending, but what we need is more organization, and still more araenization took over the S. C. I. and made it| We organized a Relief Workers’ Pro- | %! Hastens to Greet Polish Fascist General | | BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Feb. | With a loud beng of his ga’ | terse to the M | Committec,” May + at the Common Cou Monday nizht, rail | sraveyard the resolu |employed Council demanding the en- |dorsement of the Workers Une }vdloyment, end Social Jnew=-nen PM 'by the Bridgeport “Social admin- tration. {who had ¢ of the bill 6.— speak in favor nm get a cha | bill to the Council morgue—the Mis cellaneous Cornmitiee. | A number of workers rose from audience present and demar | immediate action should be ts {the Bill. They were silenced ever, by another loud bang irom the Mayor's hammer. Many C.W.A. and unemployed workers responded to the call of the Unemployed Council and were among the crowd that packed the Common Council meeting et the time the Workers Un2mployment In- surance Bill was read. Welcomes Fascist In contrast to the great haste that McLevy showed in getting rid of the Workers Bill, the “Socialist” Mayer took the time of the Council to ex- t to official: the Polish fascis; general and dlerer, Gen. Joceoh Haller. This arch enemy of the Soviet Union and of the workers was the commander-in- chief of the Polish armies during the World War and was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian workers during the p ‘od of the civil war in Russ McLevy and his Socialist ad tion will officially welcome 1 suatd militarist Tuesday morning at the City Hall. But to the “Socialis Mayor the Werkers Uremn!oyment Insurence Bill was not important enough to be ected rnon. 600 Building Workers on Strike in Chicago raur- (Special to the Daily Worker) CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 6.—Six hun- dred building workers ick yesterday at the new wing being construucted at the Marshall Field estate, 135 South LaSalle St., in sympathy with the walk-out at Marshall Field com- iny’s retail store where non-union labor was employed for the con- struction of a new escalator, |throughout the country for unem- t But we must not rely on Lundeen to! ; y}reau saw the d Socialist Mayor of : Pace Three Unemployed Delegates Protest Race Discrimination at Capitol CCC Head States Negro Segregation Policy Is Approved by NAACP By MARGUERITE YOUNG ting at the poli- der, of the zro Rivhts. recent dis- in the 2 e rights that under the constitution, “but th cial dis- ces which can discrimi- ict of Columbia and throughout fe country; economic and political social iscriminations. id, “What goes on ou ol doesn’t concern me The y had an appointment, bus she wasn't ther of One Perkins’ assistants and a repres tr ive of Children’s Bu- m, which in- protested against discrimina- tions against. women on relief, and jobs, A white textile worker from Geo-gia pointed out the plight of n Negroes and showed that figh' these conditions TS.make real gain artment officials inemployed womat than $10.a weel that: most of the women’s demands were out of their field Col. Robert Fechner, C.C.C. direc- tor, told a delegation. of young workers that he considers the pres: lent rates of pay adequate, (C.C.C. workers receive one dollar a day out of which $25 a month goes to the boys’ families, and they, in conse- quence are removed from the relief rolls—Ed.) Rainey further said that he utely would not tolerate or- ion in the C.C.C.”. His only making response was that he was “looking forward to improve- ment in the standard of the food iz the ¢; fe nation of Negroes in C.C.C. Ss, but upheld segregation by saying that the whole Negro pro- gram of the camps had been adopied wth the appzoval of the | National Association for the Ad- | vancement of Colored People. Blizzard to Support Scottsboro Protest READING, Pa., Feb. 6,—Fiye hun- dred persons turned out in the worst snow storm this year to attend « Scottsboro, anti-fascist protest meet- | ing last Thursday night at the Wash- ington St. Presbyterian Church, The meeting unanimously passed 2 | cesolution to be sent to Gov. B. M | Miller of Alabama, and President | Roosevelt, demanding the release oi jthe nine innocent Scottsboro boys. | disbanding of the Ku Kitix Klan and other fascist terrorist gangs, the right of Negroes and their white allies to arm in self-defense and death te lynchers. Speakers included W. G. Brown Section Organizer of the Interna tional Labor Defense; ‘Rev. Halloway:= pastor of the chure! Nettie Wess- ner, organizer of the United Front Unemployment Council; William Powell; Rey. Wainwright, pastor of Zion Baptist Church; Rev. Jabos pastor of Readig M. E. Church. The Community Church Choir rendered Several selections. Howart B, Keehn“ gave a vocal solo, “Save Them,” a new Scottsboro song, Hes |W einstock to Speak to 3 Rochester Workers on Unemployed Struggles . ¥.. Feb, 6—Louis oi the National for Unemploy= and Relisf, will speck befote the Rochezter Confer- ence for Unemployment Insurance on Tuesday, Februcry 6th at 8 pm,” }at Convention Hall. . | Weinstock will report to the Rech | ester | Convention now in session in Wash- ,ington and will outline a progratt | of struggle for relief and unemploy- ;Ment insurance in the A, F. of I. (locals here. rkers on the Unemployed”